Re: Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit

2018-08-29 Thread Pal, Satarupa
afka.apache.org" Subject: Re: Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit Satarupa, Glad I could help, and thanks for the additional context. It doesn't sound like this use-case requires real-time notification. Why not just poll a web service periodically, say every 5 minutes? If you need

Re: Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit

2018-08-29 Thread Ryanne Dolan
Satarupa, Glad I could help, and thanks for the additional context. It doesn't sound like this use-case requires real-time notification. Why not just poll a web service periodically, say every 5 minutes? If you need something more real-time, I'd suggest using a more traditional publish-subscribe

Re: Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit

2018-08-29 Thread Pal, Satarupa
Hi Ryanne, Thank you so much for detailed explanation. Here is couple of more asks - 1) Here Consumers are not short lived but we want to listen to the message and become idle. Is there a way to notify the Kafka server that message is reached to Consumer? So that post which server does not pr

Re: Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit

2018-08-29 Thread Ryanne Dolan
Satarupa, it sounds like you are conflating some concepts here. Some clarifying points: - Only one consumer in a consumer group receives any given record from a topic. So in your scenario of 1 million consumers, they could not be members of the same group. You'd need 1 million consumer "groups" to

Re: Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit

2018-08-29 Thread Tyler Monahan
Satarupa, In my experience kafka has a 10k partition limit per topic. I don't think you are going to be able to get 1 million partitions to work on a single topic. A consumer would need to subscribe to listen to a kafka topic. You will probably need to have multiple consumer groups or multiple top

Query related to Kafka Consumer Limit

2018-08-28 Thread Pal, Satarupa
Hi, I am from Intuit. We want to use Kafka as message bus where Single Producer produces message and 1 Million Consumer listens it. Requirement – 1. Single producer and 1 Million Consumer and one particular Topic with message. 2. When Pushed Message thru producer, should be received by